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Assignment #1: From “Dark Age” to “Rebirth”

Assignment #1: From “Dark Age” to “Rebirth”. What does it mean for society to be in a Dark Age? Are we in a Dark Age? Why or why not? What does it mean for Society to be “reborn”?. New Unit Calendar!!. Tests? HW? Projects? Unit overview.

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Assignment #1: From “Dark Age” to “Rebirth”

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  1. Assignment #1: From “Dark Age” to “Rebirth” • What does it mean for society to be in a Dark Age? Are we in a Dark Age? Why or why not? • What does it mean for Society to be “reborn”?

  2. New Unit Calendar!! • Tests? • HW? • Projects? • Unit overview

  3. Introduction to Renaissance: lecture and film notes • To understand the “rebirth” we need to know what came before. • Roman Empire Falls – 500 C.E. (A.D.) • Europe eases into a “Dark Age”

  4. The Middle Ages : What do you notice about the Social Structure?

  5. Politics/Religion • Local, not central authority • Church is only source of education and has lots of power. Society highly structured - Peasants at the bottom

  6. The Plague Changes Society (Also famine and wars) • 1348 • Kills thousands • Those that remain have more resources and job opportunities

  7. Location of the Renaissance: Italian City States Rise of bigger cities More wealthy individuals Italy in a good location for trade Merchant and wealthy families gain power instead of local lords and kings

  8. Renaissance: A rebirth of art and learning starting in Italy and later spreading to the rest of Europe. • Medici: A rich merchant family ruling Florence (Italy)

  9. The Renaissance Begins! • Society is changing. • People’s general wealth goes up. • More resources, more jobs • Villages become urban centers.

  10. The Medici – Godfathers of the Renaissancehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFDJK8jmms&list=SLBig Picture Question:What impact did the Medici Family have on the Renaissance?

  11. Themes of the Renaissance

  12. Italian Renaissance Characterized by self-conscious awareness that Italians were living in a new era Artists of the Renaissance had contempt for medieval predecessors 5 Key themes : • Individualism • Secularism • Rationalism • Humanism

  13. 1. Individualism

  14. 2. Rationalism

  15. 3. Secularism

  16. Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494 Our destiny is not determined by anything outside of us. God has bestowed upon us a unique distinction: the liberty to determine the form and value our lives shall acquire….man is the master of his own destiny!

  17. 4. Humanism

  18. Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374 Father of Humanism

  19. Living, I despise what melancholy fate has brought us wretches in these evil years. Long before my birth time smiled and may again, for once there was, and yet will be, more joyful days. But in this middle age time’s dregs sweep around us, and we beneath a heavy load of vice. Genius, virtue, glory now have gone, leaving chance and sloth to rule. Shameful vision this! We must awake or die!

  20. Niccollo Machiavelli 1469-1527 The Prince c.1515 …some virtues will lead to a prince’s destruction and some vices will allow him to survive..

  21. If you are a “ruler” (or in charge of something….a team, a group project, a school, a company) Is it better to be loved or feared??

  22. Sonnet to Laura If this should be love, O God, what shakes me? If Love it is, what strange, what rich delight! If Love be kind, why has it fangs to bite? If cruel, why so sweet the barb that rakes me?

  23. Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the Courtier

  24. …I am of the opinion that the true profession of the Courtier ought to be that of arms; which I would have him follow above all else and be known among others as bold and strong and loyal to whomsoever he serves...

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